no On Popular Eluftons. 



and dandier was burnt alive. When this unfortunate 

 man was led to execution, a bee was obferved to fly about 

 his head; this was fuppofed to be Wis familiar. 



(M) p. 62. Baxter gives two inftances of a judge ex- 

 amining, from the bench, whether a poor illiterate creature 

 could repeat the Lord's prayer: it was proved, according 

 to this author, that a witch cannot rehearfe it without 

 blundering. 



(O) p. 71. Serenus is fuppofed to have invented the 

 famous Abracadabra. Wier. p. 406. 



(N) p. 68. There is a grave relation in Delrio, of a 

 witch being fhot flying, by a Spanifh centinel, at the 

 bridge of Nieulet, near Calais, after that place was taken 

 by the Spaniards. The foldier faw a black cloud advanc- 

 ing rapidly, from which voices ifl'ued ; when it came near 

 he fired into it; immediately a witch dropped. This is 

 undoubted proof of i\it meetings ! Difq. Mag. p. 708. 



(P) p. 77. Van Helmont, Bodinus, Strozza and Luther 

 imputed thunder and meteors to the devil. 



( QJ P* 7^- ^^' Auguftine fuppofes the prophetefs, men- 

 tioned in the fixteenth chapter of the Afts of the Apoftles, 

 to have been a Ventriloquifl, without any apparent foun- 

 dation. The Pythia at Delphi was fuppofed to be a Ven- 

 triloquifl, receiving infpiraiion from certain fifl'ures in the 

 earth, as Cicero informs us (a do6lrine of which Swift 

 has made great ufe). In Mulieribiis, fays Wierus, (p. 140) 

 Sonus horum 'unticinioriim ex genitalil'us partibus edebatur et au- 

 diebatur. The fame author adds, ^lin et Tertullianus, auffor 

 graniijjimus, ajfrmat fe 've?ilri loquas vidiffe faminas, e quorum 

 pudendis •vociila qutedam dut/i fedebantur excitabatur, refpondebat- 

 quefcifcitautihui. Deniqiie Celius Ludovicus, patrum nojlrorum 

 memoria faminam fe 'ventriloquam crebro 'vidiffe Rhodii, Italia 

 urbe l^ patria fua, fcribit : ex cujus pudendis njocem immundi 



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